There was an arrest in the Tupac murder. Here’s the latest.
On September 7, 1996, Tupac Shakur and his Thug Life/Death Row crew left a Mike Tyson fight in Las Vegas in a convoy heading to Club 662, a place owned by Suge Knight. Pac was with a number of people in a black BMW 750i sedan.
Around 11:15pm as the car was stopped at a light on Las Vegas Boulevard, a white four-door rented Caddy pulled up on the passenger side of the BMW. Someone–one of apparently four men in the car–fired multiple shots from the back seat Caddy with Tupac being hit four times. They got him to the hospital but he died on the afternoon of September 13 because doctors couldn’t stop the massive internal bleeding.
No one has ever been arrested and charged in the murder of Tupac Shakur–until today.
Hold on. Back up.
There were many investigations into Tupac’s death over the decades, but they all went nowhere. But then on July 17 of this year, the Las Vegas Police Department raided the Henderson, Nevada, home of a guy named Duane “Keffe D” Davis, one of the last surviving witnesses of the murder, something he bragged about in a 2019 memoir entitled Compton Street Legend. (The other witness we know of is Suge Knight, head of Death Row and the driver of the Beemer that night, but he’s in prison serving life for murder.)
Davis is a self-described gangster known to cops and is the uncle of a former Shakur rival who was once on the suspect list. The first thing he did that night was acquire a gun from a drug dealer friend. He claims he was in the passenger seat of the Cadillac and slipped a gun to someone in the back seat. That person–possibly a member of The Crips–took the shots. We think the other three people are Terrance Brown (the driver), Orlando Anderson, (who was attacked by Shakur earlier in the night in retaliation for trying to steal a Death Row necklace), and Deandre Smith (also in the back seat). Brown, Anderson, and Smith have all since died, so they’re not talking.
After the shooting, Davis says he hid the Caddy, had it repaired–there was obviously some damage–and then returned it to the rental agency. He also hid the gun.
Davis owned the house that was raided. It’s unclear if he was living there but his wife certainly was. The reason for the raid? The cops were looking for items “concerning the murder,” whatever that means. They walked out with .40 caliber cartridges that fit a Glock, computers, photos, and more. Three weeks later, bodycam video was released.
On Friday, September 29, Keffe D was arrested. He was nabbed while out on a walk and charged with one count of murder with a deadly weapon. CNN has some good background on this.
